Hike is an Indian AI-led Unicorn startup that is committed to building a new social future. Hike believes that the future of social will have products that are joyful and built around people, not the other way around. The company believes the future of social lies in social niches and is scaling that future through two bets, Hike Sticker Chat & WinZO. Redefining what social means to Indian users, Hike recently launched HikeLand, a virtual world enabling magical shared experiences with HikerMoji as users’ virtual identity.

What is Hike Sticker Chat?

Hike Sticker Chat is an expression platform through which Hike aims to take expressions beyond the keyboard. In line with the company’s vision of bringing new-age social experiences, the company recently launched a hyper-local avatar, HikeMoji built at the intersection of art and AI. Redefining what social means to Indian users, Hike recently launched HikeLand, a virtual world enabling magical shared experiences with HikerMoji as users’ virtual identity.

In line with the Hike’s vision of bringing new-age social experiences, the company recently launched a hyper-local avatar, HikeMoji built at the intersection of art and AI. Redefining what social means to Indian users, Hike recently launched HikeLand, a virtual world enabling magical shared experiences with HikerMoji as users’ virtual identity.

Redefining what social means to Indian users, Hike recently launched HikeLand, a virtual world enabling magical shared experiences with HikerMoji as users’ virtual identity.

What is HikeLand Home?

Home is your very own Home on #HikeLand. It’s a private place for you and your loved ones to hang out.

What is HikeLand Big Screen?

In #HikeLand, just like in life, we want to build opportunities for people to meet other people in a fun way. So, we have built Big Screen to start with - a place that brings people together around the content they love.

When you enter HikeLand, you become part of a like-minded community of people from around the world. Like you, everyone is here to hangout over magical shared experiences. Being part of this community means that we promise to keep each other safe.

All the data stored on our servers is completely encrypted with the AES-128 algorithm with strong Key and Salt stored in a completely different key management system, KMS. This allows us to ensure that user data is always kept safe.

Artificial Intelligence
& Machine Learning

At Hike, we believe technology should wrap itself around people and not the other way around. Advancements in the field of AI are finally enabling us to bringing about this change.

Come join us as we take the world beyond the keyboard.

Research Areas

Computer Vision

3D Personalization

3D Animations

3D Accessories

Publications

Enhanced shared experiences in heterogeneous network with generative AI

COVID-19 has made immersive experiences such as video conferencing, virtual reality/augmented reality, the most important modes of exchanging information. In this paper, we propose the method of a video streaming pipeline to provide better video quality under erratic network conditions.

Robust One Shot Audio to Video Generation

Audio to Video generation is an interesting problem that has numerous applications across industry verticals including film making, multi-media, marketing, education and others. We propose a novel approach OneShotA2V to synthesize a talking person video of arbitrary length using as input: an audio signal and a single unseen image of a person.

One Shot Audio to Animated Video Generation

We consider the challenging problem of audio to animated video generation. We propose a novel method OneShotAu2AV to generate an animated video of arbitrary length using an audio clip and a single unseen image of a person as an input.